There are two tragedies here, not just the obvious one.
Marty coerced Annie into returning to the cult's manipulations in 1992. That's something like nineteen years ago, people. If Ortega is correct, and "Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again" then a person who wanted to get out - at least to get some peace and think things through for herself - never again got that chance.
Can you imagine being chased down and taken back into an abusive cult, and never again having a chance to think for yourself, or make choices about your own life... for almost two decades, until you die?
Greater good of the greatest number of dynamics, my ass. This is an outrage against fundamental human rights, and it degrades all human beings that such things can take place. How many more victims is Scientology denying basic freedoms to, tonight?
Marty might "feel bad about that" but he certainly doesn't feel bad enough, yet. Perhaps one day he will come to understand just how much damage Hubbardism has done to him, and his victims.
The REAL tragedy is that she didn't HAVE TO. Nobody was holding a gun to her head. Nobody was marching her in chains. She could have turned from Marty and walked away, and there wouldn't have been
anything that he could have done, especially out in an open public area.
THAT goes to show the amazing effectiveness and "workability" of Hubbard's MIND CONTROL TECH.
Simple "looks" and "words" can get the over-indocrinated willing adherent to do just about anything, because he or she has internalized the entire absurd Hubbard paradigm in a way that renders them forever maleable and pliable to the wishes and instructions of the controllers.
I mean if someone chased me down I would just say, "no, get lost, go sell your shit to somebody else". It takes a TRUE BELIEVER to go the effect of this sort of MIND manipulation. Sadly, these people accept the chains with open arms and even put the handcuffs on their own hands (metaphorically speaking)! They do this by agreeing with the basic nonsensical ideas of Scientology.
These make up the three points of the Scientology Belief Triangle (SBT):
1) All eternity, all life, my own future, and the future of my friends depends entirely and only on the success of Scientology.
2) We, as Scientologists, possess the ONLY CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF MAN & LIFE and the ONLY WORKABLE METHODS TO BRING ABOUT SANITY AND SALVATION.
3) LRH is always right, and the Scientologist MUST do what he says, exactly and completely.
Without the acceptance and belief of these three key points, no person could be maniplated or controlled by WORDS and LOOKS.
Hubbard is a supreme asshole for creating such a system of belief. The Church of Scientology staff members are assholes for propagating such a system of belief. And the poor suckers who get pushed around, both the staff and the public, are major dummies for
buying into it and
allowing themselves to be pushed around like a leaf in the wind.